One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca More Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca More Quotes From Lucius Annaeus Seneca To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is well to be born either a king or a fool. Lucius Annaeus Seneca In every good man a God doth dwell. Lucius Annaeus Seneca We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. Lucius Annaeus Seneca All art is but imitation of nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca All cruelty springs from weakness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Lucius Annaeus Seneca An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. Lucius Annaeus Seneca He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
